🚨Last June, I landed in London—unaware that my lawful American speech had been dragged into a British court, and a secret arrest was waiting.
It failed. But the message was clear:
🇬🇧Britain believes it has jurisdiction over the First Amendment. 🇺🇸
It doesn't.
@prestonjbyrne's GRANITE Act draws the constitutional line.
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2/The UK has become ground zero for "libel tourism"—where foreign courts claim authority over American citizens for speech made on American soil.
👉Speech that is 100% legal under the First Amendment.
👉Speech that would never see a courtroom here.
👉My Substack writings, social media posts & lawful complaint to the UK's Solicitors Regulation Authority, all while made on American soil, were weaponized against me‼️
(Details of this extraordinary violation of my rights can be found here: sayerji.substack.com/p/sayer-ji-a-s…)
3/ This isn't hypothetical—I'm one of the targets.
Imran Ahmed's UK-based CCDH branded me and @RobertKennedyJr as the "Disinformation Dozen"—comparing us to sexual predators and criminals for openly questioning vaccine safety and daring to advocate for parental rights and informed consent.
🇬🇧 We were called murderers who "profit from death"—before British Parliament.
Those smears were laundered into justification for our deplatforming, then escalated further: an attempt to criminalize our speech as "lethal."
Question vaccines. Lose your platform. Face prosecution
Foreign defamation. American and international consequences.
(Details in "When Parliament Becomes a Weapon": sayerji.substack.com/p/when-parliam…)
4/Enter Preston Byrne and the Granite Act.🔥
GRANITE: 🌍Act-Guaranteeing Rights Against Novel International Tyranny & Extortion 🇺🇸
The legislation draws a hard constitutional line:
Foreign judgments against Americans for First
Amendment-protected speech will NOT be enforceable in the United States.
Period.
5/Why "Granite"?
Because American free speech isn't negotiable.
It's not subject to foreign approval.
It doesn't bend to international pressure campaigns or lawfare designed to silence dissent.
It's set in stone.
(Full Text of the Wyoming GRANITE Act: )prestonbyrne.com/2025/11/19/the…
6/ The First Amendment wasn't written to protect popular speech.
It was written to protect unpopular speech—the kind that challenges power, questions narratives, and holds institutions accountable.
That's exactly what foreign actors are trying to crush.
🗽I can think of few better birthday gifts for the United States as it approaches its Semiquincentennial (America250) than a law that remembers where that boundary lies.
7/ We fought a revolution to free ourselves from British rule over our rights.
Nearly 250 years later, we shouldn't have to fight another one to protect our speech from British courts.
🔥1776 wasn't a suggestion.
The Granite Act sends a clear message to any foreign power attempting to silence American citizens:
𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁, and respect the sovereignty of both our citizens and our nation if you expect the same. 🇺🇸🇻🇮
Full article: sayerji.substack.com/p/dont-tread-o…
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